healing
How to heal fully and properly.
The Daffodil
March 17, 2020: I came into our little clinic that day full of uncertainty. Tension and worry were palpable: COVID 19 was encroaching on rural Northern Idaho, and all the news nationally and internationally was bad. There were rumors swirling about cases, that there were people who had come in from the West Side (Western Washington) and they were sick. I didn't know if it was true, if they really had the virus. I just knew that my worst fear of a pandemic sweeping across Humanity was being realized. I did not feel equipped to deal with the massive number of deaths, the suffering, the fear. Images and stories of the Spanish Influenza pandemic of last century ran through my brain from nursing school. All I could comprehend was that I was wildly unprepared, personally and professionally. I thought about friends, family, my colleagues and patients. What if they got sick? What if they died? Would the clinics and hospitals be overrun with critically ill people? Would people be dying at home alone from a virus we knew so little about?
By Rachel Clements5 years ago in Motivation
The Kettle
I have sat on sharing this story with you now for weeks. There is nothing pretty behind the truth that these birds so beautifully cover. And I myself have never enjoyed the feelings I conjur up inside just from saying the truth out loud. But here goes.
By Charity Faye Alexander5 years ago in Motivation
Being Honest
A few weeks ago someone said something to me out of anger, but it has stuck with me and I need to resolve it. “Be honest with yourself” were the words which he spoke. So here I am, me, naked before you with all my honesty. Feeling very vulnerable but needing to say this. Please understand some things are difficult to admit and speak of but remember YOU asked for my honesty. So here it is.
By Gail S.5 years ago in Motivation
Criticism-both yours and others
To my solo practitioners and wielders of your faith Welcome As we look closer to the end of the year (October 31 is only 10 days away!!!) but we forgot that when approaching a new year we should do our best to correct the wrongs made in this year of 2020. With all that is said and done it's time to peel some band aids off about things that are still lingering around and that is criticism.
By The Celtic Spirit5 years ago in Motivation
YOU ARE WORTHY
The inability to receive support from others is a trauma response. Your “I don’t need anyone, I’ll just do it all myself” conditioning is a survival tactic. And you needed it to shield your heart from abuse, neglect, betrayal, and disappointment from those who could not or would not be there for you.
By Mary Hilbert5 years ago in Motivation
My journey as a Chiari Malformation Warrior
I have a small white heart tattoo on my right wrist to remind me to love myself and to be kind to myself. I’m booked in for my next tattoo on Thanksgiving day (we don’t celebrate this holiday in Australia). My new tattoo is to commemorate the 4 year anniversary of my Chiari Malformation decompression surgery.
By Allison Harvey5 years ago in Motivation
The Story Of The Back
Fall has fallen onto Colorado. It's increasingly become one of my favorite seasons as I've continued to live out life on Earth during this changing time. That being said, It definitely does not mean that the season does not pose its own challenges as each season does. Quite the contrary occurs in fact. For the past six years of my life I've spent my time either changing and evolving as a musician and songwriter, but also doing the same as a massage therapist. How I came into both vocations is a subject for another article, but for this occasion I'd like to speak about my journey with the lower back. For whatever reason, I've always had a tight lower back. From an early age it's been something that has been part of my life. It's followed me in my sports career early on in high school as I navigated different endurance sports. It's followed me to Japan when I went to live there to teach English and it is with me now. It's a teacher, although I haven't always regarded it as such. In the past it was an ailment, a weakness. Slowly however, I'm learning to see the blessing that this "ailment" has provided me with. Autumn just happens to be the time when my lower back reminds me that it's still there and what it has done for me.
By Sound And The Messenger5 years ago in Motivation
There's a Universe Inside You. Top Story - October 2020.
I knew I had a purpose, but why did I feel like cellophane? I grew up in Brooklyn, New York, in the early '90s between the dope dealers on Flatbush and the Haitians playing dominos on Church Ave. My mother got pregnant with me at fifteen years old, and my father was shot and killed three days after my first birthday. Growing up in Brooklyn was rough; however, I made the most of it. No matter how turbulent things were, I always found my silver lining, and I didn't give up. When I was nine, I ended up homeless with my mother, and I experienced hunger for the first time. Twenty-nine years of profound experiences gave me the grit to make something of my life and share my story to inspire other women.
By Shontel Anestasia5 years ago in Motivation
